Josh Kun, Diana Wagman finalists for SoCal book awards

These are the finalists for this year's Southern California Independent Booksellers Awards. The winners will be announced at an event on Oct. 24.

Fiction

• "Shelter Us: A Novel" by Laura Nicole Diamond
• "The Book of Life" by Deborah Harkness
• "Life #6" by Diana Wagman

Nonfiction

• "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by Caitlin Doughty
• "A Curious Mind" by Brian Grazer
• "To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City" by Josh Kun

T. Jefferson Parker Mystery Award

• "Marry, Kiss, Kill" by Anne Flett-Giordano
• "The Replacements" by David Putnam
• "The Cartel" by Don Winslow

Glenn Goldman Award for Art, Architecture, and Photography

• "Both Sides of Sunset" by Jane Brown
• "Why L.A.? Pour quoi Paris?" by Diane Ratican
• "100 Not So Famous Views of L.A." by Barbara Thomason

Children’s picture book

• "The Farmer and the Clown" by Marla Frazee
• "The Book With No Pictures" by B.J. Novak
• "Ninja Bunny" by Jennifer Gray Olson (Dan Santat)

Middle grade

• "Space Case" by Stuart Gibbs
• "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer Holm
• "Echo" by Pam Munoz Ryan

Young adult novel

• "The Young Elites" by Marie Lu
• "All the Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
• "Nimona" by Noelle Stevenson